Monday Blues

The last few days were a big old FUNK.  Even with hubby home, maybe especially with hubby home.

He's walking on the side of unhappy too.  Not sure whether to stay working, not happy about the state of anything either.  We fed off each other and the weekend was lousy and boring,

Something needs to change for me.  I need to figure out how to do better during this time -- a time that has no foreseeable relief in the non-mask wearing south.

I keep sputtering with a little success and then falling backwards again.  I'll do some thinking today and some planning,  Hubby has a BIG conversation with his boss today.  He needs the work situation to change while it's not safe to fly (i.e. more work from home).  The answer will determine if he continue.  This is a big day.

Anyway, I'll write all about both tomorrow.  Hopefully, I'll have some better news.  I have some ideas :)

We watched a movie Saturday night -- What If.  It was a rom-com and just okay.  Hubby liked it better than I did.  Made a nice dinner too.  Broccoli salad, oven baked potato chips and cowboy chicken.  I also baked the brown butter chocolate chips cookies.  You could taste the brown butter in the dough, but not the final cookie.  More work than necessary with this recipe, but I tried it and he loved it.  I have a simpler cookie recipe he likes just as well.  Good old butter flavored Crisco cookie.  It's what he knows and it's a favorite.  Every once in a while, I try a "special" recipe to see if I can do better -- never is that much better in his mind.  Not complaining because his favorite is super simple.

I watched The Kind of Staten Island.  It was good.  Super actors, "real" feeling story -- even with the price tag.  Since the kids watched too, I felt better about spending $19 on a 48 hour rental.

I'm slowly getting into Beach Read (Emily Henry).  It seems good, but I'm only about 50 pages in -- reading and being in a crappy mood don't go hand in hand for me.

BTW -- it's PMS week (maybe that's obvious).  Sorry in advance (!!)

Strange thing happened yesterday.  I took off my nail polish (it was chipping) and didn't get around to applying more.  A few hours later, my nails started hurting.  So much by bedtime, that I had to polish them before bed.  I thought this only happened if your nail beds were too thin after SNS, gel, etc.  I googled and turns out, wearing nail polish slightly curls the nail bed up.  After it's off for a few hours, the nail bed flattens out again and that causes the pain.  They are sore this morning, but not nearly as much as last night.  I had no idea.  I guess I usually take the polish off and re-polish quickly enough that that hasn't happened before.

As bad as I felt the last few days, today feels more upbeat.  Maybe it's because I feel like today will get us closer to some answers with hubby and some ideas for me.

Have a happy Monday.  Stay well.  Later gators.